I went to do a system restore on a machine with Windows 7 SP1 that I had done restores on several times in the past. When I got into the program, it said there were NO restore points available. Zero. The feature was turned on, but the drive space allowance was set to zero. That was a big disappointment and has caused a lot of grief trying to get the system up and running properly again.

Has anyone seen this before? Any thoughts on how it could have gotten changed to zero? I know the user well and I really doubt it was because of their intervention. VEEAM Endpoint Backup Free was recently installed on the system. Could that have changed the setting?

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Hmmm... A user should not be able to change the System Restore settings unless they have Admin rights. Does your user have Admin rights? Could they think that they were freeing up drive space? I have seen it set to zero on a new install, but one of my setup steps is to check the System Restore settings to adjust that. I have not used Veeam so I can't say if that would change the settings. I have never used any software that would. I have used software to delete restore points, but that's it.

You summoned me:) I'm sorry to hear those troubles, but I can assure you Veeam Endpoint Backup Free doesn't change any of those settings of "system protection". Well, it simply can't. You can always raise a case with a support team but let me just save your time.